Oscars 2013 Time: When To Tune In, TV Channel & More Information

It's the 85th annual Academy Awards and you can watch live on ABC. The show itself will be preceded by Red Carpet arrivals, beginning at 7 p.m. ET.

This year's Oscars, which will be hosted by Seth MacFarlane, has all the makings of what could be an historic night. You can download the official Oscars app as a companion to the broadcast, and as usual, Twitter should have a flurry of real-time activity under the hashtag #oscars.

Have you ever seen a movie where you walk out saying, “That was just a great f--king movie”? That’s Ben Affleck’s Argo. Inexplicably, a film that draws its strength from humor and suspense, winds up being more moving the second time through. Perhaps because once you have been through the suspense part of it you get to know the characters better and therefore care about their outcomes more.

02/25/2013 12:31 AM EST

At Least Someone Liked It

02/25/2013 12:28 AM EST

Daniel Day-Lewis' Meryl Streep Joke

“It’s a strange thing, because three years ago, before we decided to do a straight swap, I had actually been committed to play Margaret Thatcher, um...” he joked. “And Meryl was, was Steven’s first choice for ‘Lincoln.’ And I’d like to see that version. And Steven didn’t have to persuade me to play Lincoln, but I had to persuade him that, perhaps, if I was going to do it, that Lincoln shouldn’t be a musical.”